Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin, North End, Boston

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Saturday, December 29, 2018

Michelle Obama is America's most admired woman of 2018. Barack Obama is America's most admired man.




For those of you who follow popularity contests, here's one for you:














Former first lady Michelle Obama has been named America's most admired woman of 2018, according to a Gallup poll. This is the first time in 17 years that someone other than Hillary Clinton was at the top of the list, according to Gallup.  As for the most admired man, former President Barack Obama won for the 11th year in a row.

as mentioned 5 percent of the time. Hillary Clinton and Melania Trump followed with 4 percent mentioning each.
Gallup attributes the switch at the top of the women's list to the fact that Clinton "more fully retreated to private life after a long career as first lady, U.S. senator, secretary of state and two-time presidential candidate." Michelle Obama is currently touring the U.S. to promote her best-selling autobiography, "Becoming," putting her back in the spotlight despite the fact that her role as first lady is over.
Queen Elizabeth also made the top 10 for a record 50th time. Other world leaders, activists, entertainers and one Supreme Court justice rounded out the list.
Gallup Poll: Most Admired Woman, 2018
Michelle Obama           15% mentioned
Oprah Winfrey              5%
Hillary Clinton               4%
Melania Trump              4%
Queen Elizabeth            2%
Angela Merkel                2%
Ruth Bader Ginsburg    2%
Ellen DeGeneres            2%
Nikki Haley                     1%
Malala Yousafzai            1%
Nancy Pelosi                   1%
As for the most admired man, former President Barack Obama's 11-year winning streak leaves him one first-place finish short of tying former WWII commander and President Dwight Eisenhower for the most times being most admired man, Gallup writes. 
This year marks the 13th time since the poll began in 1946 that the incumbent president did not win. However, President Trump did make the list, coming in second, with 13 percent of people surveyed mentioning him.

22 comments:

Les Carpenter said...

The fact tRump made the list at all should trouble every person with a clear head and good will. It is astounding that he did.

Infidel753 said...

Michelle Obama is currently touring the U.S. to promote her best-selling autobiography, "Becoming"

I wonder if Trump has seen this.

Shaw Kenawe said...


Infidel753 I'm sure President Raindrop's handler keep any such news away from him or he'll have another trantrum and order the US military to bomb all book stores.

Michelle and Barack Obama are far and away more loved and admired thant the phony DJT and his trophy wife.

People generally like genuine human beings. Neither Trump nor his wife are any of that.

Shaw Kenawe said...

RN Trump still has his 30 percenters kissing his prodigiously large orange arse.

There's no accounting for taste, is there.

Dave Miller said...

Great post Shaw... I love the 30%'ers who are claiming Michelle Obama never faced mocking like Melania Trump has. Heck, the abuse she took from people on the very site claiming that was worse than Melania has ever got.

Michelle... one beautiful woman.

Shaw Kenawe said...

Dave

I received a half dozen raging comments from the 30 per centers full of anti-Michelle Obama whining. One claimed that every picture is photoshopped. They completely ignore the fact that Melania is photoshopped real time. She's been botoxed, her eyes have been done as well as her nose, and of course, her breasts have been implanted. She looks nothing like the young woman who first dated Trump before he was divorced from his second wife. Talk about photoshop!!

Trumpets will never understand the difference between the natural beauty of a highly educated, warm, loving accomplished woman versus Melania, a woman who lied about her education and who stole from Michelle Obama's speeches. Trumpets have, by the support of #45, shown us that they know the price of everything, but value of nothing.

Michelle Obama is genuine; Melania is not.

Les Carpenter said...

To call those folks trumpets is an insult to trumpets everywhere. 😃

skudrunner said...

What a wonderful couple. She will make millions on her book and will be the queen of the ball. I am surprised he has not written another chapter in his privileged upbringing to riches life. The last two books were so meaningful.

He was a good subject for a ghost writer just lacking in leadership skills for all but the special interest groups and of course the very rich. His non accomplishments will go down in history and he will be viewed as a weak president. Created a temporary band aid on immigration reform instead of fixing it, Sold out America for billions in the Paris accord getting nothing in return, gave russia the lead in his line in the sand causing thousands of lives to be lost, ending sanctions and giving our enemy millions in hostage money and enough to further their threat of nuclear weapons, bowing to China over the F16 purchase by Taiwan. The list is long and distinguished but they are a cute couple.

Shaw Kenawe said...

skud: "What a wonderful couple. She will make millions on her book and will be the queen of the ball. I am surprised he has not written another chapter in his privileged upbringing to riches life. The last two books were so meaningful."


skudrunner calls being raised by a single mother and then grandparents and never knowing one's father a "privileged" upbringing. But skud has never mentioned Donald Trump's millionaire father who got a doctor to lie about his prissy son's bone spurs to keep him out of serving in Viet Name.

skudrunner has a problem with the Obamas making money by writing books, but skudrunner has never said a word about Donald Trump -- his president -- cheating people out of their money by running a fake university, by not paying his contractors, by using his CHARITY as a slush fund, and by negotiating with RUSSINAS to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, WHILE RUNNING FOR POTUS.

Skud constantly trashes the Obamas, two people who are admired more than the current occupants of the White House -- remember, skud, Trump called America's White House "A DUMP."

Skud is like the rest of the TrumpCultists, constantly bringing up President Obama's presidency and trashing it, him and his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Obama are far and away the model of a loyal, loving, educated and uncorrupted couple. They are what Americans aspire their childen to be.

Who in the twisted minds of Trump supporters would encourage their children to be a moral pig, a cheat, a liar, and possible traitor to one's country? TRUMP supporters apparently find those qualities the best and would want their daughters and sons to emulate them.

We all see through your bitterness, skud. The GOP base continues to support a man who's been shown to be a venal, corrupt fraud. He's lost General McMasters, Kelly, and Mattis, all of whom have served their country with valor and honor. They have nothing good to say about the moral pig you support in the WH.

You will no longer get to insult the Obamas here. Try to see through your ideological haze and look at what you and the GOP support.

It's more horrible than you think.


PS We liberal/Democrats did NOT lose our minds when Trump was installed by Russia as the POTUS. The GOP base did.

And you and they will pay dearly for it.

Anonymous said...


Michelle Obama is classy, smart, and loved more than the trumpet Melania

Ray Cranston said...

Of course the Trumpanzees drool over Melania. She's a fake woman with fake breasts, fake face, fake education, and a fake husband. She told everyone at tRump's GOP convention that Trump is loyal and will never let anyone down! HA! She's his third wife and he even cheated on her with a porn star and a playmate and god knows who else. The Evangelical Christians tell their kids to grow up to be cheats and liars like him. They seem to really like her and him and everything fake about both of them.

Michelle Obama is real. No wonder the Trumpers don't like her. They like fake shit.

Shaw Kenawe said...

Anon and Ray,

The bottom feeding Goopers -- the 30 percenters -- are obsessed with Michelle Obama (maybe because the American people reject her Fakeness for the genuine Michelle?). Anyway their preznit's approval number is 38% and they're talking about Michelle Obama's fashion choices?

Anone would love to change the subject when it's focused on the immoral, incompetent “tiny fingered, Cheeto-faced, ferret wearing shitgibbon” " they, with the help of Russia, put in America's White House.

Desperation is seeing the 30 percenters talk about women's fashion instead of facing what gullible dopes they are and have been.

I'm Always Tight said...

Michelle Obama vs. Melania Trump? No comparison! Melania is gorgeous and Michelle is a man.

The REAL Dave Miller said...

You are an Idiot if you really believe that!

Shaw Kenawe said...

IAT,

Straight from an alcohol-soaked brain.

Happy New Year!

Shaw Kenawe said...

TRDM, You're an idiot if you think anyone believes you're the real Dave Miller. What you are is a loathsome worm for stealing another blogger's name. Again, I point out the fakes and liars who support the fake and mendacious POTUS.

POGO said...


I'm curious, how does anyone get have a " fake education"

Shaw Kenawe said...

POGO, Melania Trump lied about her education. She claimed she had a degree in architecture from University in Slovenia. In fact, what researchers found:

The GOP Convention program stated that Trump attended “University in Slovenia” where she obtained a degree in architecture and design, CBS News, which previously had published the claim that Melania Trump had received her degree, looked deeper into into it after her appearance at the Republican National Convention:

Melania Trump didn’t receive a college degree in design and architecture at the university in Ljubljana, Slovenia, which her biography in the Republican National Convention program claims she had obtained.

CBS News checked the official public records of the university, and Melania Trump is not listed as having graduated from there with a degree.

We also checked the Ljubljana University archives for any records of Melania Knauss, Melanija Knavs, and every other combination and alternate spellings of those names that we could find, and were unable to locate a record of her at that university, nor at any other university in the country.


Melania did not receive a degree in architecture. Like her husband, Melania is a liar. She was a model, but not a supermodel.

Trump also continually lies about his education as well.

FAKE EDUCATION.

skudrunner said...

And here I thought this was a praise to the wonderful Obama's. As expected it turns out to a hate trump fest. I have no idea what Melania's education was and really don't care because she is not our president. Has bho released his transcripts yet or Michelle.

BHO did have a privilege upbringing. Maybe not by colonists standards but raided by white upper middle class relatives in Hawaii is not that shabby. Harvard on a scholarship and president with limited job experience does not equate to a hard life.

I am sure they are great people but he did little for the average American and was only concerned about special interests and of course the rich, the really rich.

possumlady said...

You are sounding deranged, Skud. Keep repeating the same nonsense over and over and over and over thinking that yes! This time people will believe me or more importantly, I’ll actually believe what I wrote!!!

I do honestly feel sorry for you. Try and have a happy New Year even with the Obamas still making news on how every sane person misses them.

skudrunner said...

Happy New Year To All

Don't feel sorry for me PL because every day is a new adventure and life is fantastic. I do understand why so many have such good feelings about the obama's and they are probably swell people. He just didn't do anything for the average American but was great for all those special interest groups and socialized with the billionaire class who he was against.

Les Carpenter said...

Skud, keep repeating the same nonsense over and over, and over, and over thinking thr yes! This time people will believe me...

skud will continue to repeat his favorite talking points ad nauseam. You can count on it Possumlady.

Truth is skud is a Trump supporter and a proud member of the 30%'s. Contrary to whatever protestations he might offer.

Like SO MANY others supporting a diseased corrupt con is better than any liberal. Regardless how honorable, decent, intelligent, and competent they might be.

skud simply represents a more polite pseudo respectful member of the trumpian fake canservatism movement..